IMMOLATION

'Immolation' (Latin ''immolare'' "to sacrifice", originally "to sprinkle with sacrificial meal", English since the 16th c.) may refer to:

★ 'Fire sacrifice'

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★ Animal sacrifice

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★ Human sacrifice

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★ Hecatomb

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★ Holocaust (sacrifice)

★ 'Cremation'

★ 'Sati' is a Hindu funeral custom involving immolation.

★ 'Self-immolation' is suicide by immolation, notably as an extreme form of protest.

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★ Jauhar was the voluntary death (on a funeral pyre) of royal womenfolk of defeated Rajput castles to escape rape by their conquerors (in India).

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In popular culture:

In popular culture:

★ Immolation (band) is a death metal band from Yonkers, New York.

★ Immolation is a spell of a Night Elf hero, the Demon Hunter, in the Blizzard computer game '', and that of the warlock class in ''World of Warcraft''. (In fact, immolation spells have been included in many paper and electronic fantasy games since the 1980's.)

★ In Edgar Allan Poe's short story "The Cask of Amontillado," Montressor notes that Fortunato 'did not perceive that my smiles, ''now'', were at the thought of his immolation.'

★ ''Self-immolation'' is a song by Fear Factory.

★ ''Immolation'' is the second song by Becoming the Archetype for their second album ''The Physics of Fire''.

★ ''Dance Dance Immolation'' is the version of DDR presented by ''The Crucible'' at their annual ''Fire Arts Festival'' in Oakland, California.